Artist's albums
Covers II
2019 · album
Silver Bells
2018 · single
Next Time
2018 · album
Royal Empress
2018 · single
What Do I Know?
2018 · single
Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet
2016 · album
I Was Going To Be An Astronaut
2014 · album
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
2013 · single
Landline
2012 · album
Into The Mystic
2010 · single
Take A Bow
2010 · album
Covers
2009 · single
How The Day Sounds
2008 · EP
Three Flights From Alto Nido
2008 · album
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
2007 · single
Through Toledo
2006 · album
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Biography
Originally from Long Beach, California, Greg Laswell is one of the most uncompromising songwriters of these modern times. You may recognize a bit of Leonard Cohen in his tormented baritone. You might think of Tom Waits when you sense how deep in the gut these songs come from. But if there is a quality that still and ever marks out Laswell’s writing, it is an ability to use words like unrepentant paper cuts. Should you be at the receiving end, perhaps you might not at first feel the sting; but it will burn like hell later. In 2009, Laswell’s songs started appearing in various films (Friends With Benefits, My Sister’s Keeper, Final Destination) and television series (Grey’s Anatomy, Parenthood, Friday Night Lights) with the release of “Three Flights From Alto Nido.” A covers EP (entitled “Covers”) soon followed with versions of Kate Bush’s “This Women’s Work,” Morphine’s “In Spite of Me” and Echo and the Bunnymen’s “The Killing Moon.” In 2012, Laswell released “Landline” featuring guest vocals from Sara Bareilles, and Sia. Popmatters called his work, “Haunting and genuine.” Filter described his songs as “punches to the gut.” And Blackbook said, “Rightly compared to the likes of Leonard Cohen and the late Jeff Buckley.” “Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet” came in 2016 with rave reviews—the title track, “Dodged A Bullet” appearing in the season finale of NBC’s The Blacklist. Laswell just finished recording “Next Time” (his seventh studio album), scheduled for release this fall.